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I bet you can’t have just one spoonful.

My husband has a sweet tooth. I know what you are all thinking, that’s why he married me. Well, there is that of course. Then there’s his second love. Dessert. He especially loves the traditional French Canadian dessert called Pouding Chomeur. The only time he gets to eat this dessert is when we go to [...]

What would you do if you were a man (anatomically correct) for a day?

Do you want to know what I would do if I were a man (anatomically correct) for a day? Then hop on over to the Crazy Chick’s Club blog and find out, and join in the chat. I’m having a busy blogging week, yesterday, I was interviewed at: The Book Queen’s Book Palace Tomorrow (Friday, [...]

Fun Fabulous Focaccia Feast (trying saying that title real fast)

The journey to the best Focaccia of my life was a ten hour flight, a two hour car ride and an hour donkey ride uphill all the way. Okay, I’m joking about the donkey part. However, I bet back in the day they had to use donkey’s to get to the tiny Trattoria in Italy, [...]

Living like a Crazy Chick and Loving it!

Please welcome the witty, intelligent and founder of the Crazy Chick Club, Ms Lafemmeroar to my blog. Lafemmeroar is a single and loving it crazy chick who laughs at the malfunction of the universe because it’s better than crying about it. She hopes to find “the one” someday. and she believes that she’s getting close because [...]

For the Chocolate Enriched Diet Plan

Welcome to another Tasty Tuesday. This week my contributions are: Decadent. Easy to make treats that put the “icious” in choco-licious. Chocolate-Insert your Favorite Liqueur-Truffles  Peanut Butter Chocolate Cups Chocolate Bailey’s Irish Cream Cups Chocolate-Insert your Favorite Liqueur-Truffles Ingredients 6 ounces good quality dark chocolate 2 TBSP of unsalted butter 2 TBSP heavy cream 6 TBSPS of (choose [...]

Exclusive Interview with Celebrity Chef Fabio Viviani

Re-posting this interview for the new blog followers. This charismatic celebrity chef hates cilantro. At seven years old, he set fire to his grandmother’s kitchen. He explains why he reviewed his own cook book on Amazon. Bravo to  him, I say. He gives us insight into reality television. Fabio is generously gifting EVERYONE free copies of all his [...]

My Favorite Vegetable

Welcome to another addition of Tasty Tuesday. For this week’s contribution, I am sharing a recipe for one of my favorite vegetables; Broccoli Rabe (it’s also called Rapini). Broccoli Rabe is an acquired taste as it has a slightly bitter flavor, but the way I make it, even people who shy away from this nutritionally packed vegetable [...]

The Princess and her friends share Thanksgiving

What better way to commemorate the wonderful holiday of gratitude, with a story written by children ages 4 to 6 years old about what they are thankful for. There’s nothing more adorable than reading how a child’s imagination is let loose with a creative writing project. I hope this short story the children wrote will touch [...]

So, how does one eat a Taco?

The fist time I ate a taco was when my husband and I were on our honeymoon. (Sometimes I ask my husband to proofread my blog, this was one of those times and he read the first sentence and already had an editing comment: “You should delete the words my husband and I, because who else [...]

The Next Big Thing

My sister in writing and wonderful author, Kimberley Troutte tagged me to play a game called The Next Big Thing, where authors hold the microphone for a minute, answer ten questions about the stories they are working on, and then pass the microphone to five other authors. Here is my shot at the microphone: Question: What [...]